Would the Rochester Planning Board ever fine the Buzzards Bay Coalition? On June 28, the board came close to doing so as it reviewed violations of town Planning Board regulations on Marion Road. Approximately two years ago, Planning Board Chairman Arnold Johnson said the coalition cut trees on 55 acres that it owned […] Read more »
The contract extension announced this past spring for Old Rochester Regional Superintendent of Schools Mike Nelson is the ringing endorsement that tells all, but the state’s Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) prescribes an involved process for a superintendent’s Summative Evaluation. In summarizing that process, Sharon Hartley told the Old Rochester Regional Joint […] Read more »
The Marion Finance Committee may meet on July 13 to vet one more item on a list of Reserve Fund transfers approved at its June 22 public meeting. Before launching into four transfers from the Reserve Fund, the committee voted to approve one appropriation transfer requiring both FinCom and Select Board approval. […] Read more »
It has been a very long time in coming, but now emerging and advancing forward after years of planning is the repair and upgrades of the Eel Pond Sewer line. In attendance at the June 27 meeting of the Mattapoisett’s Conservation Commission were Mattapoisett’s Water and Sewer Department Superintendent Henri Renauld and from the town’s […] Read more »
On June 23, the Mattapoisett Board of Health met with representatives from a company whose business model is the production of compost from food waste. The operation and processes used to create useable compost products were described by Andrew Brousseau and Tom LeClair of Black Earth Compost, founded in 2011 in the City of […] Read more »
A June 22 public hearing of the Marion Conservation Commission determined that while Robert Meehan’s plan to install an 18 by 38-foot in-ground swimming pool with a 5-foot-wide concrete deck, spa, equipment pad and pool shed at 50 Lewis Street lies in an area subject to the state’s Wetlands Protection Act, the construction will […] Read more »
Kristine Medeiros was back before the Old Rochester Regional School Committee on June 22, seeking approval to double the number of home dates that Old Rochester Youth Football was allowed last year to use the high school’s multi-use, stadium field for home games. The request had been tabled while ORR Principal Mike Devoll […] Read more »
State Representative William Straus announced on Monday night that the Town of Mattapoisett has been awarded a state grant in the amount of $120,000 for further engineering study of the bike path’s Phase 2a planning. Originally, The Friends of the Mattapoisett Bike Path in partnership with the town’s Bike Path Committee had applied for […] Read more »
The Rochester Select Board Monday night unanimously approved a new member of Police Chief Robert Smalls’ administrative team. The board endorsed chief Small’s recommendation that Donald Kemmet be appointed a new Rochester Police Department lieutenant. Small noted a professional interview panel whittled four candidates for the job down to Kemmet, who comes to the new […] Read more »
The Rochester Conservation Commission approved heavy fines for a noncompliant homeowner at 89 Box Turtle Drive. During its public meeting on Tuesday night, the board agreed to begin delivering “non-criminal enforcement tickets,” fining the property owner on a climbing scale of $50, then $100, then $300 per day for clearing too much of his […] Read more »